Word Origin & History

1630s, "to feel sick, to become affected with nausea," from nauseat- past participle stem of Latin nauseare "to feel seasick, to vomit," also "to cause disgust," from nausea (see nausea). Related: Nauseated; nauseating; nauseatingly. In its early life it also had transitive senses of "to reject (food, etc.) with a feeling of nausea" (1640s) and "to create a loathing in, to cause nausea" (1650s). Careful writers use nauseated for "sick at the stomach" and reserve nauseous (q.v.) for "sickening to contemplate."

Example Sentences fornauseate

All of us have tasted or smelled certain foods or medicines that nauseate us.

I abhor sin, I loathe and nauseate thereat; most of all at my own.

It works quicker and does not nauseate when the stomach is empty.

The heat and the smell and the surging motion began to nauseate Stella.

People who nauseate, if taken seriously, are used as the excuse for various farcical situations.

Be careful to observe the rule that if remedy should nauseate cease giving for twelve or twenty-four hours.

Samuel Johnson commands our admiration, at least in his matured style: but we nauseate his followers.

I do not wish to nauseate you with the revolting particulars of a landsman's initiation to the ocean.

In the dryest, the largest, the best of them there is everything to debase the manhood and nauseate the soul.

Methinks, a Smithfield Match is so very ridiculous, that it might nauseate a half-witted Courtier.